TomServo wrote:I apologize, Isotopia. I was looking for a fucking log. And jumped the gun with your reply. I'm donating a 10 gallon steel barrel to a friend, to make her own rocket stove.

ygmir wrote:hey Tom........I can make you one or more of those stumpstoves.If you want/need.

TomServo...I wonder, can you make a rocket stove out of a 10 gallon!!!! size barrel???? If so, sign me up! I think the design used a black stove pipe and other tin cans and twigs for fuel...huh, can it be made bigger without tearing out ones hair in the process? Please let me know if you complete one that works.

ygmir...yea man, crank some of those cut log stoves out! That'd be cool...you could go BIGGER than the originals!
With a SHARP new chain or freshly sharpened chain I wonder HOW big of a log stove could be done? Interesting for sure! (no redwood stumps, ok?)
Some of the log cutters do that stacking of angle cut stumps...it'd be interesting to make each one a cut log stove and light up a whole stack!
Burning log sculpture...maybe light the top ones earliest and watch as they burn down one by one. Still might be too moopy but it reminds me of those interesting cone shaped fire pits that spray 1000's of red sparks about every five or ten minutes when a burning log drops and the sparks blow through the metal screen from the playa breeze and create a curtain of safe, clean, fire sparks...very clever design. I walked through one of those curtains of fire the first time I noticed those...impressive to say the least!

I'm the MAN in a truck, burner who is stuck, you're in luck! I'll whip out my BIG tow chain and not charge you, not even one lousy buck!

TomServo wrote:I apologize, Isotopia. I was looking for a fucking log. And jumped the gun with your reply. I'm donating a 10 gallon steel barrel to a friend, to make her own rocket stove.

ygmir wrote:hey Tom........I can make you one or more of those stumpstoves.If you want/need.

TomServo...I wonder, can you make a rocket stove out of a 10 gallon!!!! size barrel???? If so, sign me up! I think the design used a black stove pipe and other tin cans and twigs for fuel...huh, can it be made bigger without tearing out ones hair in the process? Please let me know if you complete one that works.

ygmir...yea man, crank some of those cut log stoves out! That'd be cool...you could go BIGGER than the originals!
With a SHARP new chain or freshly sharpened chain I wonder HOW big of a log stove could be done? Interesting for sure! (no redwood stumps, ok?)
Some of the log cutters do that stacking of angle cut stumps...it'd be interesting to make each one a cut log stove and light up a whole stack!
Burning log sculpture...maybe light the top ones earliest and watch as they burn down one by one. Still might be too moopy but it reminds me of those interesting cone shaped fire pits that spray 1000's of red sparks about every five or ten minutes when a burning log drops and the sparks blow through the metal screen from the playa breeze and create a curtain of safe, clean, fire sparks...very clever design. I walked through one of those curtains of fire the first time I noticed those...impressive to say the least![/q
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I have no idea how the 10 gallon "burn barrel" will work. I'm more intrested in these stump logs

Seems like a twig stove would be perfect on the playa. About 15 or 20 minutes of gathering out on the near playa to cook a meal. Oh, you were talking about a log FIRE place...
Well, that's completely different. Seems obvious, really, to see what you were talking about. I wonder why you would get such obviously misplaced and uncalled for snark in the very first comment of a legitimate question?... I thought snark, especially such incorrect to the subject snark, was allowed only after real, and the askers, question was answered?

Well, it is eplaya. Even if it's totally off question, and not very good 'snark' to begin with.

Real answers first, per the moderators wishes, then snark, even wrong and off topic snark.

TomServo wrote:Ok.....another question. Ygmir you may know this.... does the stump stove need the 6-12 months to dry?

Rule of thumb is a year per inch or two of thickness for hardwood cut green, less for softwood. Article above says the Canadian guy builds log homes, so the stump stoves are probably cutoffs or culls from his stash of Lincoln Logs, already seasoned. The center hole has some kind of fins for ad hoc kindling, and wax-soaked shavings for tinder.

Oooh, here's another one. Amazing what the Google can do for homework assignments.

yeah, I'd say the drying time is about right.......of course, it depends on the size of the log. But, with softwood, a good hot summer and it's good to go.
The big stuff can take longer.
It'll dry faster, if cut to shorter lengths.......also, I bet, if hollowed and grooved as it's gonna be, it'd dry even faster.

I do think it was a chainsaw.........looked like a square hole in the middle, on the vid I saw........
And, I'm damn good with a chainsaw (look at the new roof and ceiling on my rental house next door)...............

At a point this winter, I'll probably just make some, for kicks.
So, let me know when you're coming up.
I'll find some dry pine, in the mean time,,,,,maybe cedar.

Oak would be good, really hot,,,,,,,,but, I hate to waste good house heating firewood.

ygmir wrote:yeah, I'd say the drying time is about right.......of course, it depends on the size of the log. But, with softwood, a good hot summer and it's good to go.The big stuff can take longer.It'll dry faster, if cut to shorter lengths.......also, I bet, if hollowed and grooved as it's gonna be, it'd dry even faster.

I do think it was a chainsaw.........looked like a square hole in the middle, on the vid I saw........And, I'm damn good with a chainsaw (look at the new roof and ceiling on my rental house next door)...............

At a point this winter, I'll probably just make some, for kicks.So, let me know when you're coming up.I'll find some dry pine, in the mean time,,,,,maybe cedar.

Oak would be good, really hot,,,,,,,,but, I hate to waste good house heating firewood.

Could you accelerate the drying by baking the logs? I'm sure I could find whole stumps sold as firewood....But it would suck to make one and find out its too green to burn.

seems baking would be counter productive, not only finding an oven big enough, but, drying to fast can cause wood to split and or crack.
Air flow is as important as heat, in drying. taking the bark off, cutting it to length, sitting it in the sun and where it's breeze will do about as much as can be done.

I probably have some seasoned pine and or fir at my mountain "retreat".......
I'll check when I go up next week.

I'd also imagine, it does not have to be "perfectly" dry,,,,,,,damn close, but, once you get it burning inside........

So how's it going with the log search Tom? Any luck finding mesquite logs? I'm thinking about making a rocket stove. I've looked online and found plenty O' stuff on that subject! Should be interesting.

Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious.

maryanimal wrote:So how's it going with the log search Tom? Any luck finding mesquite logs? I'm thinking about making a rocket stove. I've looked online and found plenty O' stuff on that subject! Should be interesting.

Not a lot of Mesquite trees in no.cal. are some down south...and I've found an eager supplier of Oak stumps in Napa.

if they're actual "stumps" with roots and such, they will be problematic, in that they'll likely have a lot of dirt and rock embedded in the areas at or below original ground level. Tough on a chainsaw.